Roosevelt High School resource officer Tony Beminio chats with students as school is dismissed Feb. 25.

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Many of Iowa's high school students have become accustomed in the past decade to seeing a police officer patrolling the hallways of their schools.

Now a push is under way in the state's largest district and elsewhere to make officers commonplace in elementary schools as well.

Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw this month proposed boosting the number of police officers assigned to the district's schools, including adding elementary buildings. If the proposal moves forward, Des Moines would be among just a few Iowa school districts with a formal school resource officer program for ...